I just called voter registration to inquire how many signatures Waterman/Jehl turned in today. It’s public information. Instead of just telling me, after they found out who I was I was put on hold. I’d give odds that they asked Andy (I never met a democrat I didn’t like) Downs what to tell me. They got back on the phone and transferred me to Deb Morrone and I was sent to voice mail.
All I was trying to do was confirm what a very reliable source had already told me. They turned in approximately 350 signatures. When you consider that Allen County is the third most populous county in the state, that won’t get it, now will it?
Do the math! – AWB
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Just to be clear… the 33ksomething is statewide. They could have done well, out of Allen County, mabey?
Well Dan,
In the real world picture, the math doesn’t look good, but lala land math means there is a chance if they got 350 signatures in every county…35 x 92 = 32200.
That would be enough I believe…the chances it will happen……..
Shoe,
You’re failing to consider the population of all 92 counties. The bottom 47 counties don’t even equal the size of Marion and Lake counties. They have a total population of 973,000. Marion has just over 800,000 and Lake just over 500,000.
Dan,
I am not arguiing your point. I agree they won’t get the signatures needed if they can’t pull in large numbers in Allen County. By my guesstimate, they needed to bring in half their total signatures in in Fort Wayne, Indy, Evansville and Gary. If those 4 cites/counties didn’t acount for 15,000 signatures, they were not going to make it. With John Price bankrolling this, I expect some bigger numbers out of Indy and Waterman still would have had to pull in a ton of votes in the South. If that happened, without 4 digit totals in Allen, it won’t happen.
i was just stating that if they did magically get 350 signatures per county…they would reach their goal. I realize that there a ton of small counties, but on average each of those 47 counties still has over 20,000 residents. They only need less than 2% of them to sign.
Remember our 47 smallest counties combined still have more residents than the 4 smallest states by population.
I never agreed with this move by Glenna and Waterman and even though she has great grassroots experience, they just didn’t have enough time or enough volunteers to do the door to door canvasing to get the signatures. I mean, seriously…Glenna goes to a church with over 1,500 members. You would have thought that alone would have been worth 500 signatures.